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Obama has made good on some promises but they haven't been implemented yet. I'm still withholding judgment until I see the outcome...which could be some time since the Repugs have continued their partisanship tactics. Time will tell. We have a long way to go but I THINK that we are at least trying to look at things differently....once again, time will tell. So I say to all "Good Luck & Good Night".......PEACE....Scott

Monday, September 25, 2006

HOUSE GOP PASSES COVERT POLL TAX BILL

FRANK JAMES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEWSBLOG - The House passed by a largelypartisan vote of 228 to 196 the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006which would require anyone wanting to vote in a federal election topresent polling place officials with a government-issued photo ID. Butaccording to the legislation, it can't be any old government-issuedphoto ID. It must be one that proves its holder is a U.S. citizen.

That rules out driver's licenses since a legal, non-citizen U.S.resident can get those. And in many states illegal immigrants can stillget drivers licenses though that is set to change in a couple of years .. .

So under the legislation whose sponsor, is Illinois' own Republican Rep.Henry Hyde, a lot of people may wind up needing to take their U.S.passports with them to vote on future election days if the FEIA ispassed by the Senate and signed into law by President Bush.

That's a big if, however, since there doesn't appear to be a lot ofsupport for the legislation in the other chamber. . .

The legislation is an example of a cure that is worse than the disease,critics say. They warn that large numbers of voters will bedisenfranchised because older and poor voters, among others, won'teasily be able to obtain an unimpeachable government-issued ID.

It costs $85 to get a passport, not counting the cost of photographs.And a passport isn't something that a lot of Americans have. Indeed, theState Department says only 27 percent of Americans possess one.

State issued IDs would be allowed. But states with voter ID laws likeGeorgia and Missouri are requiring voters to show proof of citizenshiplike birth certificates before issuing the documents and, hard as it isfor many to believe, some Americans don't have birth certificates. AKansas City woman the opponents use as Exhibit A, Maria Frencher, can'tget a birth certificate because she was adopted and doesn't know heractual father's details.

Opponents consider the photo ID requirement as a new poll tax, thedescendant of the insidious poll taxes that were common in the South andmeant to disenfranchise black voters after the Constitution's 15thAmendment gave them the right to vote following the Civil War.

Critics of the legislation have come right out and accused itssupporters of slyly wanting to depress the votes of voters more likelyto vote for Democrats than Republicans.

State judges in Georgia and Missouri have recently enjoined officials inboth statse from enforcing voter ID laws they've enacted on the groundsthat they are unconstitutional.